1
: a portable platform for handling, storing, or moving materials and packages (as in warehouses, factories, or vehicles)
2
: a wooden flat-bladed instrument
3
: a lever or surface in a timepiece that receives an impulse from the escapement wheel and imparts motion to a balance or pendulum
1
: a straw-filled tick or mattress
2
: a small, hard, or temporary bed
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Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 16 May 2026
An assistant speeds back and forth, loaded down with pallets of snacks, her long hair streaming behind her.
—Jade Chang, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2026
But instead of using or selling those pallets, the companies instead melted them down and sold off the aluminum for use in other products, prosecutors said.
—Sean Emery, Oc Register, 13 May 2026
My father’s library—eight tons of paper, thirteen pallets of books—was eventually donated to Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar.
—Literary Hub, 6 May 2026
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Noun
But there are no pallets of snacks and toothpaste inside these walls.
—Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 16 May 2026
An assistant speeds back and forth, loaded down with pallets of snacks, her long hair streaming behind her.
—Jade Chang, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2026
But instead of using or selling those pallets, the companies instead melted them down and sold off the aluminum for use in other products, prosecutors said.
—Sean Emery, Oc Register, 13 May 2026
My father’s library—eight tons of paper, thirteen pallets of books—was eventually donated to Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar.
—Literary Hub, 6 May 2026
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“Pallet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pallet. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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